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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Sunday, September 27, 2009

John and I are having a fantastic time meeting so many of you on the "world" tour, and we're also having lots of fun seeing what the fabulous bakers who volunteered their services at each event are bringing to feed you guys. We'll be posting more pics of those cakes as the tour progresses, but for today I thought it'd be fun to troll through these bakers' sites and show you some of my favorites.

First we have Johnnie of Something Sweet Cake Studio. I've already posted the great Wreck Tribute cake she made for Orlando, so here are a few of my favs from her site:

This is competing with the Darth Vader cake to be my all-time favorite baby shower cake. C'mon, a snorkeling/scuba-diving baby? What's not to love here?

And on the more elegant side:

Gorgeous flowers, and I like how Johnnie hand paints so many of her cakes.

For Portland we had three separate people/bakeries providing goodies: Sadie Damon and her pastry class students from Western Culinary Institute, Jessica Hill of Black Sheep Bakery (who provided a yummy chocolate vegan cake), and Angel & Robin of The Dessert Tray. Since Angel & Robin are the only ones with a site for me to lurk on, here's one of their oh-so-lovely designs:

Note how they were able to make cherry blossom branches withOUT making them look like poo logs. See? It CAN be done!

For last night's event in Seattle, we had Paul of Jet City Cakes and Matt of Starry Nights Catering collaborate on a cake project that will absolutely knock your socks off when you see it. But that will be another post, so you'll have to stay tuned. [evil snicker]

Paul and his wife Liz specialize in sculpted cakes, like so:

(Look at the detail on the screen!Suh-weet!)

And so:

(Why yes, that IS an Alien wedding cake. Why do you ask?)

Matt and his wife Denise (and helper Heather), however, specialize in more traditional designs:

Those are hand-painted chocolate shells. Gorgeous.

Like I said, stay tuned for lots more pics of the "World" tour events. John and I are scrambling to get our photos in order and post-able while traveling like mad every day, so just bear with us a little bit longer.

Thanks again to all of today's bakers. You guys have made each stop so much sweeter (pun intended) and it's been fantastic meeting you all!

After yesterday's bridal shower disaster zombie cake, it's a pure delight to see these beauties! I can't wait to see the cakes from the tour, but I also understand how hectic things are for you right now! Thanks for keeping up with the posts and bringing a smile to so many faces!

Ditto the nerd girl. My DH, who cares not a whit about this sort of thing, pronounced it "the coolest wedding cake he'd ever seen." We've both watched the Alien/Aliens films so many times we know the dialog, so yeah, very cool! And the cherry blossoms were lovely, too.

Miranda - the aliens are supposed to look phallic. HR Giger, the artist who designed them for the movie, is well known for his, erm, risque art aesthetics.

That said, I think it's one of the best wedding cakes I've ever seen! Aliens is one of my all-time fav movies, but the wedding cake makes me think of Spaceballs which is even better! The 'groom' looks like the dancing chestburster from the diner scene!

Thank you so much for a great time last night. It was sweet, exciting and just a bit weird. Uh...wait...we are talking about the book signing in Seattle, right?

We at Jet City Cakes were totally stoked to do the cake for you and our new found friends at Starry Nights were an absolute gas to work with. Total pros that are not afraid to work with another bakery. We plan on more collaboration in the future thanks to Jen and John!

On the Alien Cake: that is one of our faves as well. Dawnspring, when I put the little top hat on the groom I TOTALLY thought about the alien in the diner in Spaceballs. As for the last question, they are actually from the movie Alien (or Spaceballs, whatever) not Dune or Star Wars. Although a Shai-Hulud* cake would be awesome. Any takers?

It was so great meeting you and John today! (I was the shy mom in the orange tank with her little boy - whose face was covered in chocolate - in tow.) Love that you called out all the geeks in the room... this Webmaster appreciates your appreciation of us. :D

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